Error probability performance for WCDMA systems with multiple transmit and receive antennas in correlated Nakagami fading channels

Author

Luo, Jianxia ; Zeidler, James R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1220

Abstract

The bit-error-rate (BER) performance of a 2D-RAKE receiver, in combination with transmit diversity on the downlink of WCDMA system, is presented. The analyses assume correlated fading between receive antenna array elements, and arbitrary number of independent but nonidentical resolvable multipaths; combined by the RAKE receiver, in the general Nakagami-m (1960) fading channel framework. The impacts of the array configuration (e.g. the number of transmit antennas and receive antennas, the antenna element separation) and the operating environment parameters (such as fading severity, angular spread and path delay profile), on the overall space-path diversity gain can be directly evaluated

Keywords

antenna arrays; broadband networks; code division multiple access; correlation methods; error statistics; fading channels; multipath channels; multiuser channels; radio networks; radio receivers; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; 2D-RAKE receiver; BER performance; MIMO systems; Nakagami-m fading channel; WCDMA systems; angular spread; antenna element separation; array configuration; bit error rate; correlated Nakagami fading channels; correlated fading; downlink; error probability performance; fading severity; multiple input multiple output systems; multiple receive antennas; multiple transmit antennas; nonidentical resolvable multipaths; path delay profile; receive antenna array elements; space-path diversity gain; Antenna arrays; Bit error rate; Downlink; Error probability; Fading; Multiaccess communication; Multipath channels; RAKE receivers; Receiving antennas; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2001. GLOBECOM '01. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7206-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2001.965678

Filename

965678